Wheel tire-rim.



J. A. CONNOR.

WHEEL TIRE RIM. PPLIOA'IflON FILED JULY 25, 1907.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

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UNITED STATES JOSEPH A. CONNOR, or GROGAN, orno WHEEL TIRE-RIM;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Application filed July 25, 1907 Serial No. 385,499.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH A. CoNNoR, a citizen of the- United States, residing" at Grogan, in the county of Franklin and State 'of Ohio; have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in NVheel Tire-Rims, 1

of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates more particularly to wheel tire rims having removable-flanges. The main object of this invention is to provide such a rim in which the principal parts can be constructed of rolled metal.

Another object is to so construct such a tire rim that it can 'be' easily located and shrunk or otherwise secured on the felly.

A further object is to so construct such a tire rim that the flange member can be reversed to convert the rim from a clencher to a non-clencher channel or conversely.

The invention is embodied in the construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, the invention not being confined its embodiment to precisely the forms shown.

'In the accompanying is a transverse sectlona arts on view of the the line 122-:1: Fig. 2; Fig. 2is a si e view,

with parts in section, of a fraction of the device showing the means for adjusting and securing the flange member or ring; Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the flange members removed; Fig. 4 is a view of the inner side of the rim at the point containing the ring fastening devices; Fig. 5 is a detail fractional sectional view like Fig. 1, showing a flange member or ring reversed in its seat.

In the views 6 designates the rim This-body has at its edges outwardly flaring or inclined symmetrical portions as seen at 6*, said ortions being provided with inverted T shaped grooves formin seats as seen at 7v to receive the Telova 1e. flange members or rings 8. The'seat 7 is itself of symmet.

circle than the central portion of the rim and outer rim of the felly 15 hence the rim can be drawingsFigure 1- scribed, it will be observed that when an inflatable tire is seated and inflated in the rim, lateral pressure at its base or inner side I is borne directly and conjointly by the outer inclined face of the flaring portion 6 and the removable flange. The removable flanges are thus relieved of much of the strain to l which they would be subject in the absence 2 of such' inclined portion.

As I show it herein each edge of the rim is provided with a slot 9 cut through the bottom of the inverted T shaped seat and opposite this slot at the inner side of the rim is at each end with a set of serrations or teeth as seen at 10 the teeth of each set pointing toward the teeth of the opposite set. The rings 8 are each of a single rolled iece of metallic bar bent to form what is own as a split or spring ring and each of its ends is provided with a bolt 8 shown to be slightly curved and threaded. When the ring 8 is properly placed in the groove 7 the bolts 8 project through the slots of the main rim and plate 10, and on the bolts are placed toothed washers as seen at 11' to engage the toothed plate 10 and nuts as seen at 12. By turning up the nuts 12 therefore the ends of the ring 8 are drawn toward each other and the ring tightened in itsseat. The curved bolts cooperate with the toothed washer in first adjustment of the washers beinsuffishould the ring from any cause become slack or loose in its seat the toothed washer or either of them can be adjusted to bring them closer together when upon turning the nut or nuts the requisite tightness of the ring can he obtained.

To close the space between the ends of the ring 8 I can use a small tube like device 13 secured on one end of the ring and freely receivin the other end of that member. The flare o the edges 6 can be sufficient to allow the passage of the added toothed platelO over the rim of the folly. The rim body and its flared ed es, it will be observed, can be made out 0 strips of formed die rollers. After bein rolled the strips can be cut into r0 er engths, the

] riveted or otherwise suitably secured a small slotted plate 10 provided on its exposed face drawing together the end of the ring. If the sheet metal or bars of metal rolled in suitably cient to secure the requisite tightness or ends of which can be we doc to form the rim 11C of necessary. diameter. The flange members also can, as before indicated, be rolled out of slid or moved laterally onto the felly and 55 shrunk or otherwise secured thereon.

From ..the construction shown and depars and cut and bent to proper length and cum. v

The rim thus constructed can be very economically manufactured and applied.

It will be more durable and reliable in use than cast metal and the fact that the flange members are reversible makes them interchangeable, one style of rolled bar sufiicing.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A wheel rim comprising, in combination, a body portion having'in cross section a straight central portion to fit on the Belly,

an outwardly inclined or flaring ortion .6 extending from each edge of said central portion, said flaring portions having inclined outer faces and provided at their extreme edges with groove seats, removable flange members, and means for securing them in said seats, whereby lateral pressure of the base or inner side of the tire is borne conjointly by the outwardly inclined-portions of the rim and the removable flange members, substantially as described.

2. A wheel tire rim comprising, in combination, abody portion having its central portion substantially straight in cross section and its integral edge portions inclined or flaring outwardly from the central portion to form tire seats, the outer portions of said inclined or flaring portions provided with seats substantially T-shaped in cross section to receive removable flange members, flange members provided with tongues to fit in said seats and means for securing the flange members in their seats whereby lateral ressure of the tire is borne jointly by sai flaring portions and said flange members, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a wheel rim provided with a slot and adjacent said slot at its inner side two sets of teeth, the teeth of each set pointing toward the teeth of the opposite teeth of the rim. I

JOSEPH A. CONNOR.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN FINcKEL, JAMES STRADER'. 

